In danger, he traveled through time to save her, and the black-bellied prince doted on her

Noticing that she looked a little strange, Gao Neiguan didn't think much about it and quickly tried to dissuade her, "Your Majesty, Minister Mu is a woman, and whipping will leave scars. Your Majesty, please calm down."

"The imperial concubine and His Majesty have reconciled, and it was Minister Mu who persuaded them to reconcile, and His Majesty spared her."

Emperor Ming said coldly: "Call Huai Jin here, I will personally watch, anyone who dares to plead for mercy will be punished together"

Mu Jinan knelt in front of the hall in a daze. After a while, Li Huaijin came here, glanced at her, and saw that there were still traces of tears on her face. He was very worried.

Li Huaijin looked at Emperor Ming's expression and said respectfully, "Your Majesty."

Emperor Ming glanced at Mu Jinan, and in front of the two of them, he maintained his last bit of patience and said sternly: "Jinan, what if I grant you a marriage today?"

Mu Jinan was suddenly shocked. She was resentful that he did not save her when she was young. She was not a love-brained person, nor would she devote herself to a man. How could she easily marry an uncertain person?

She resisted: "Your Majesty, I don't want to."

Li Huaijin felt as if his chest had been hit hard, his whole body was numb, and he did not complain to her at all. He only regretted what he had done in the past, and those words echoed in his mind:

“She doesn’t want to”

When Emperor Ming saw Mu Jin'an disobeying him, he remembered that Rongde had also knelt outside the palace in the past, defying the imperial order to marry a scholar from an aristocratic family and marrying a military commander. He was furious:

"Execution"

When Li Huaijin saw the two men holding the cane whip, he finally understood and asked immediately, "Your Majesty, what crime did Minister Mu commit that requires punishment?"

Emperor Ming glared at him, looking very disappointed with him. How could the usually calm and composed Li Huaijin become like this? He impeached Prince Rui and ministers in the court one after another and communicated with the soldiers on the front line.

Although Emperor Ming was dim-witted, he was good at governing the country when he was young. He had heard the palace people talking about Huai Jin and Jin An, and he had understood a little in the past two days, but he also felt that he was right:

"You're guilty of deceiving the emperor. Shut up!"

Li Huaijin lowered his head, with murderous intent in his eyes, and asked again, "Your Majesty, how much do you want to fine her?"

The high eunuch sighed and said, "Twenty, Madam Mu, if you just give in, you won't have to suffer so much."

Mu Jinan remained calm, lowered his head, and cursed in his heart: "If you can't kill me today, I will kill you tomorrow."

She was like a madman, she only remembered the pain of the whip hitting her body that year. She raised her eyes, her pupils were cold and she said: "I don't want to marry King Liang"

Emperor Ming was sitting down, but his expression changed. He felt that his imperial majesty and destiny had been challenged. He stood up and pointed at her:

"Hit me"

Li Huaijin stood up and said bluntly without paying attention to what she said:

"Your Majesty, please calm down. It was I who forced Jin'an to be implicated innocently. I am willing to be whipped fifty times to appease your anger."

Emperor Ming kicked him and said: "You are useless."

Mu Jinan said anxiously: "Your Majesty, please don't, King Liang is a meritorious minister, Your Majesty, please..."

Before she could finish, Emperor Ming pressed his head and said, "Shut up, you're giving me a headache. Li Huaijin, since you want to take the punishment for her, then it's fifty..."

Mu Jinan was held captive by several eunuchs. She looked at Li Huaijin, who had a face ready to die.

The whip fell on him.

Someone counted "one, two"

Li Huaijin frowned in pain.

"Thirteen...fifteen..."

Mu Jin'an felt as if the whip was hitting himself. Looking at his helpless childhood self, his flesh and blood were all over his body. The blood seeped through his azure clothes and spread little by little.

Mu Jinan begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, please stop beating me. I admit my fault, I admit my fault."

Mu Jinan's head hit the floor tiles in front of the hall heavily. All the palace people watched from afar, fear in their hearts. The sound of whips pierced the sky and reached everyone's ears.

Mu Jinan's forehead gradually became red and swollen, and blood was stained: "Your Majesty, please stop hitting me."

Li Huaijin closed his eyes and bit his lips tightly. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead and his face was pale. He came in a hurry and did not wear armor.

"Eighteen...Twenty...Twenty-five"

Mu Jinan saw that he was enduring the pain without making a sound.

Mu Jinan pushed the eunuch beside him away, stood up and threw himself on him. Li Huaijin only felt that his back, which was about to crack, eased a little, and the eunuch who was executing him did not have time to stop.

A whip hit Mu Jinan's body, and when the whip was retracted, her cheek was hit, leaving a red and swollen mark.

She cried out in pain "Ah"

Li Huaijin realized that she was blocking the whip, he turned around and said: "Jin'an, get out of the way"

When Emperor Ming saw that her cheek was injured, he quickly stood up and said, "Go call the imperial physician."

"stop"

He pointed at the two and cursed, "Two stubborn bastards, one looks like your mother, the other looks like your father."

"That day, I didn't allow Rongde to marry Mu Chen, but she insisted on marrying him. She died of depression. She didn't want your father to investigate the case. He left Chang'an in the middle of the night and never came back."

Emperor Ming's back sank slightly, his body trembled a little, and he shook his head and walked into the hall.

Li Huaijin said angrily: "Mu Jinan, are you crazy? Who told you to stand in front?"

Mu Jinan didn't hear what he said at all. She turned to look at the blood on his back and burst into tears:

"Are you in pain?"

Her tears fell one by one, stinging her cheeks. Li Huaijin propped herself up and said with a smile:

“It doesn’t hurt”

Wipe away the tears from her eyes: "Jin'an, don't cry"

Upon seeing this, the senior eunuch immediately asked the others to leave.

Mu Jinan looked at the blood on his back, which seemed to turn into an ocean, flowing towards him. He cried with a trembling voice and his throat was burning.

She was stimulated, and her mind and eyes were filled with the sound of whips and the sound of white cage chains. The dead heads appeared in front of her, strangling her neck.

She stood up like a madman, trying her best to control herself and stay awake. She swallowed and said:

"I'm not sick, I'm not crazy, don't imprison me, don't... don't hit me"

Li Huaijin was shocked. She looked a bit like his mother when she was sick. He looked at Mu Jinan's painful expression and tried to restrain himself. He quickly clenched her hand:

"Jin'an, what's wrong with you? No one is holding you captive."

"Don't be afraid, Jin'an"

Mu Jinan wanted to sober herself up, so she bit her wrist hard, frowned, and the marriage-binding Gu surged through her body. Li Huaijin accidentally noticed that there seemed to be a worm rolling on her wrist.

But he didn't ask her. He knew that this was the poisonous insect between her and Nangong Yu, and he also knew the reason for this poisonous insect. He was not jealous of Nangong Yu's agreement with her, but because Mu Jinan valued everything above all else, he protected her wrist:

"Jin'an, if it hurts, bite me, don't hurt yourself"

Mu Jinan looked at his face and the blood on his hands. She closed her eyes, and her fingertips seemed to pierce her palms.

Mu Jinan gradually calmed down. She turned around and walked straight forward. The warmth that had finally healed her wounds was gradually torn apart.

As a modern person, she used to be afraid to step on even a bug, but after coming here, her hands were covered in blood and she had killed so many people. Every time she killed someone, she felt a little more fear in her heart.

Whether it was because she had not adapted or because she had good intentions, she struggled and could not escape, so she told herself: "I did the right thing, I must stand higher."

"Only when you stand high can you deal with the enemy"

She remembered that the day she tried to commit suicide, the weather was also sunny and the sky was blue with white clouds.